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learning process will not be able to be conducted well if there are some problems related to the student’s good interest in the learning process. Another advantage of
the improvement in the learning process is to reinforce and help the students in the learning process. Students who have good interest in learning will have better
ability and act to follow the process of learning. Besides the students ’ interest will
also help them to learn every activities in the classroom, especially learning writing the recount text.
Students’ low interest and lack of ability in writing their ideas with correct grammar, vocabulary and punctuation are some indicators showing their lack of
writing practice and media utilization in teaching writing. The first indicator is the students’ low interest in writing compared to their interest in speaking. They
prefer expressing their ideas orally to expressing them in the written forms. As a result, they can speak English fluently but they cannot write well. Another
indicator is most of the students find difficulties in using the correct grammar, vocabulary and punctuation to compose English sentences into readable and
acceptable texts.
B. Identification of the Problem
Based on the observation conducted in August 2014 in SMP N 2 Padangan-Bojonegoro in the teaching and learning activity, the researcher found
some problems. One of the main problems is the involvement of the students in every activity in the learning process which remains low. The first problem begins
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with the media. In the teaching and learning of writing the teacher sometimes uses only one visual aid or medium to teach the students.
The second problem is the monotonous class activities which were held by the teacher in the classroom. The
students’ ideas cannot be captured and revealed while the monotonous classroom exists, and when they were given writing
assignments they did that by copying from the internet. The third problem is the monotonous learning sources that made students
seem uninterested in studying. Since the learning sources were not well-prepared, most of students
’ activities and worksheet were taken from the LKS which did not contain relevant materials and it had confusing worksheet for students, so it will
not encourage s tudents’ interest in performing their best. Another problem based
on the learning sources was the writing tasks and activities that were weird and uninteresting. The writing activity lacked of meaningful activity and it seem that
the writing test was on the LKS and has the same content. Another problem is the availability of the media which could not be found
in the classroom or even in the library. The students dealt with the same medium and that was a kind of boring thing as they did not know things that may be
interesting for them, and it made them could not develop their knowledge and ability to learn English.
And the last problem is the English practice of the students especially in writing that is very low due to the low awareness of the importance of English and
the little portion of writing tasks. The teacher gave the students more tests in
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writing skills than the task to learn. Therefore the students got bored with the routine activity provided by the teacher and it had some impacts on their interest
and ability in writing. One of the factors why students of SMPN 2 Padangan get low scores in writing was they lacked of practice. Along the meeting, the teacher
gave them theories and even jokes, so the time were not allocated well for them to have practice. Therefore they did not have an opportunity to develop their writing
skills, whereas practicing and giving the task are very important. Practicing in writing was only given by the teacher as homework. When it became homework,
certainly they did it by themselves and are not guided by the teacher. Therefore some students found some difficulties and were not interested when doing the
homework. The students’ attitude toward the target language influences the output of
the target language. Students will have good attitude toward the target language if they are interested in
their teacher’s way of delivering the material.
C. Limitation of the Problem
